Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151782 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 400 pages

Synopsis
The third volume in an exciting trilogy that began with The Paradise Snare, this explosive story describes how Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon, the fastest ship in the galaxy, and how he ended up at Mos Eisley in Chalmun's Cantina. Original.

Customer Reviews

Heroic smuggler becomes cynical pirate.
THE STORY:
After winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando, Han and Chewie set off to the Corporate Sector to escape Han's clingy girlfriend Salla Zend. When they return, they find the smuggling life has changed dramatically. Soon, a reunion with his first love Bria leads Han and his friends into the service of the new Rebel Alliance.

WHAT'S GOOD:
Crispin continues to tie up the threads of Han's past in this final book of the trilogy. It begins with his aquisition of a certain 'fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy' and continues through his Corporate Sector adventures, before finally revealing how he became estranged from his smuggling friends and exactly what Lando was referring to when he said "You gotta lot of guts showing up here after what you pulled!" in 'Empire'. Cripin's writing is as good and compelling as ever and she expertly weaves the bits of Han's past together around her own story of the Ylesian slavers. There's quite a few cameo appearances in this book, not least the pantheon of his smuggler friends (we find out why Mako betrays him in 'Dark Empire'), but including Leia's friend Winter, Prince Xizor and Guri (from 'Shadows of the Empire'), a Camaasi named Ylenic It'kla (who readers of 'I, Jedi' will know is really a Jedi), and Dash Rendar (also from 'Shadows...' but who's ship was added to the special edition of 'A New Hope') amongst others. We find out what Han did to make Jabba so angry too and the book ends with Han sighting a crazy old man and a farmboy...

WHAT'S BAD:
Where 'The Hutt Gambit' was upbeat and uplifting, this book is a real downer. Han steadily loses all his friends, all his money and generally hits rock bottom (I had to watch the movie afterwards just to reassure myself that things work out for him!)

SECOND BEST!
I am a fan of Han Solo, so generally I liked the trilogy. Thanks A.C. for the books! I read the R.D, and I loved it! And at the end, that was very good. A very touching endind to that kind of a book. I'm sorry that Bria got killed off, but I guess she had to sometime. Way to go A.C!

Han's Genesis as a scoundrel
The final novel to a Solo trilogy, although had a great opening, and was a great novel, in that Crispin closed the Hutt intrigue and open the door for the Han we know in STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE.

It was a great novel, but seemed to drag on at times, and could have used a greater presence with SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE character Dash Rendar.